November 06, 2014

After Gezi: The political struggle in Turkey

located:	Turkey
editor:	Murat Suner

"In the year after the Gezi uprising, protests continued against the government’s urban redevelopment plans, against police repression, in response to repression of the Kurdish and Alevi populations, and in honor of the martyrs that lost their lives in the uprising." says Brandon Jourdan editor of the video reportage broadcasted on Vimeo.

In the context of Turkey's dubious role of allegedly tolerating Islamic State's fighters proliferation through Turkish borders, angry protests and riots have spread across the country in solidarity with the Kurdish People’s Protection Units.

In the aftermath Turkish Foreign Minister Cavusoglu announced that Turkey was allowing the Kurdish peshmerga cross into Syria from Turkey to reinforce Kurdish fighters battling to stop the Syrian border town of Kobane falling to jihadists.

It was seen as a major switch in policy by Turkey, which until now has refused to interfere in the over month-long battle for Kobane between Syrian Kurdish fighters and Islamic State (IS) jihadists.

Brandon Jourdan's film chronicles a year of uprisings, resistance and repression since the Gezi uprising in Turkey.